but if I don't find a good alternative soon I might also be forced to use them as the spambots out there get smarter and more capable to getting around basic obsticles like form fields being named differently or checks on ips.
This was me 6 months ago ^ I just had to give in to using a CAPTCHA until a proven solution comes along. On 2/16/07, Michael MD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
SilverStripe Newsletter >I personally get very frustrated with captchas, especially really
awkwardly
>hard to interpret ones. And the questions below are novel for a while but >wear you down after 10->20 a day! > >One reason I get frustrated with them is that there are great beyesian >filters out there that just "know" if a comment is spam or not. When you >submit something, it asks a >global webservice if the text seems human or >not, and its very accurate. I only realised these existed late last year, >but they've been a godsend for the sites we build. I don't really think that is a good solution... look at email spam and how much of it gets though spam filtering... and
the
risk of false positives is too high for my liking. ... we need a better way. I don't like captchas either and have so far avoided using them but if I don't find a good alternative soon I might also be forced to use them as
the
spambots out there get smarter and more capable to getting around basic obsticles like form fields being named differently or checks on ips.
(there
are even some spambots blatently using real ip addresses - eg rbnnetwork) I has to disable trackbacks on my site because the submission process for those is too open to spambots... (the standard process for submitting trackbacks is fundamentally flawed - it lacks an extra step to ask for a response from the client to check if the ip is real!) ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
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